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Erin Cadigan: PhanArtist and Fashion Designer for the masses

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This week’s PhanArtist is Erin Cadigan. Erin is a fashion designer and poster artists living in Brooklyn with her husband (who is also one of her best friends from tour) Martin.

Three - Posters and Shirts by Erin Cadigan
Three - Posters and Shirts by Erin Cadigan

Erin grew up in New Jersey where she saw her first Greatful Dead show in 1988. Over the next few years she was introduced to Phish and saw them for the first time in 1992. In 1994, a life long dream of driving across the country was fufilled. Living in her van, sleeping in squats, long drives to unknown destinations, jumping on Dead tour and catching some Phish shows; for her, nothing could have been better! The next summer she did it all over again and started to tour in earnest after graduating with a BFA in Illustration in 1996. Erin continued to tour and sell her shirts and posters up till the last shows in ’04, and was involved with PhanArt: The Art of the Fans of Phish since shortly after its inception, and has taken part in multiple poster shows and can always be seen on the lot selling her work.

She is very grateful to all who supported her work over the years, and made the last 15 years the most extrodinary experience of her life.

Erin has recently hit the 300 show mark, which we have to give HUGE kudos to. Very impressive Erin! 

You can see Erin’s work on Facebook, and her website, linked below

www.facebook.com/pages/Three-posters-and-t-shirts-by-Erin-Cadigan/128783164478?ref=ts

www.erincadigan.com

Some of Erin’s past creations

fall 97
fall 97

summer 97 shirt
summer 97 shirt
artist profiles, phanbusiness, Posters, shirts, stickers and pins

Christine Lafferty’s Shirts and Such

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Christine Lafferty has been making some great shirts for some time now. In addition to the shirts below, she has a Charlie Brown ‘Chalkdust Torture’ shirt that caught my eye at Darien Lake, prompting me to get in touch with her for the blog.

You can get these shirts by paypal-ing clafferty1@mac.com

Shirts include the aforementioned Chalkdust on white, and gray, and the shirts below.  They are available in all sizes, plus in tie-dye. She  can also tie dye any of the white chalkdust shirts by request

Christine also sells some clothing on skimadesigns.etsy.com. She make tons of kids dresses, shirts and adult shirts, skirts, etc.

She sells the shirts for $15, the tie dyes for $20. Check out Christine’s great shirts!

Backwards Down the Numberline front
Backwards Down the Numberline Back
Backwards Down the Numberline back
Backwards Down the Numberline Front
Fluffhead front
Fluffhead front
Fluffhead Back
Fluffhead Back
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PhanArtist Profile: AJ Masthay

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Today we feature out first in a long series of PhanArtists, those creative individuals who were part of the first incarnation of PhanArt: The Art of the Fans of Phish, and have continued to share their artists creations and endeavors with the Phish community.

Aaron “AJ” Masthay burst into the concert print scene in 2001 with his editions of linoleum blockprints. Traditionally trained at the Hartford Art School, AJ designs, carves, and prints every piece of art by hand. With art firmly based in realism, he uses multiple colors, subject matter, and composition to draw the viewer in. AJ recently moved his shop, Masthay Studios, and is now located out of West Hartford, CT.

AJ has created some amazing prints in the past year, including the Bass Bomb for Hampton, Bass Bomb 2 (thanks to a huge response for the first print), Red Rocks TRex, The First Official McLovins Posters, and an amazing Geisha poster for the PhanArt kickoff party in February.

AJ is one of the great artists to emerge from the Phish scene, and stands to produce great things for many years to come.

Check out his work at www.masthaystudios.com

AJ’s newest is a tryptic for the shows in Indio, CA, at the end of October. 3 amazing posters, The Horseman
(Limited edition of 66, 7 color lino block print), Gill-o-tine (Limited edition of 131, 8 color lino block print), and Satan’s Stew
(Limited edition of 66, 8 color lino block print)

While the Gill-o-tine prints will be available individually (#’s 67-131), #’s 1-66 will only be offered as a set of three. Onsale date and time for all prints is Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 12 noon EST. Prints are limited to 2 per person.
A Matching set of all three prints – $100.00 plus shipping
A Single Gill-o-tine print – $35 plus shipping

Check out these images below, as well as on his website